![]() ![]() Some of us, if you are like me, had to learn some hard lessons on the power of motivating people the right way. Remember your first day? Battling to do your best but also learn your new team or job. How does this relate to you? We have all been "the first" at one time or the new manager or leader of a group, a group already established. So she was battling being the first in a department while attempting to highlight herself in a way that deemed her a valued part of the team during this segregated time. In the movie, Katherine Johnson had to gain the acceptance in the Space Task group becoming the first African American woman on the team eventually aiding in the successful John Glenn space launch. It will take the ability to be personally reflective, honest, and push yourself- believe me I have done it and am still doing it! Maybe you are trying to figure out how to not be hidden anymore and that answer is within you, I promise. Whether it is your first job or your 20th, you have been hidden in the masses, hidden among your peers, or you are at a high level in your career and still hidden. I want you to remember at some point you were a hidden figure- maybe your job hasn't noticed your potential yet or maybe you haven't highlighted yourself enough yet to give them a reason to notice. I want to take you through the journey of these women and the implications it has on your career in 2017. ![]() The movie beautifully takes the audience through their life and journey to become pioneers at NASA. Just to get you up to speed if you haven't seen it: it is primarily about 3 female African-American mathematicians (Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan) at NASA who all work as "computers" to calculate numbers for the team at NASA and their journey towards self-empowerment, confidence, and acceptance during the still divided 1960's : Katherine Johnson works as a "computer" in the segregated West Areas division of Langley Research Center in Virginia alongside her colleagues, aspiring engineer Mary Jackson and unofficial supervisor Dorothy Vaughan. But I soon realized, it was going to be more than that and its lessons are for us all (and don't worry men this post is not just about women, so stay with me). I recently watched the movie "Hidden Figures"and I thought I was just going to watch a wonderful movie about the incredible things women have done and can do. watch a movie! Movies are great ways to realize your life is not as bad as you think! Now this post is not about the joy of movies but rather the lessons we should take away from them. The movie was directed by Jack Sholder, whose last film was "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2." I don't know what I was expecting, but certainly not this original and efficient thriller.Weekends are really good times to take your brain off of the daily grind of the work week and the stresses of an impeding new week. Meanwhile, the killer moves from one host body to another, taking a guided tour of Earth life-forms (his hosts include a dog and a stripper). As he gradually begins to believe his story, his problem is to deal with his fellow cops, who don't believe in spacemen. MacLachlan plays his alien with a certain strange reserve, as if he's trying the controls very lightly, afraid of going into a spin.Īt first, Nouri naturally assumes this FBI guy is simply another weirdo. Jeff Bridges had a similar challenge in " Starman," in which he played an alien who cloned a human body and then tried to find his way around in it. It also has a sense of humor, and some subtle acting by MacLachlan, whose assignment is to play a character who always is just a beat out of step. "The Hidden" takes this situation and makes a surprisingly effective film out of it, a sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. "Are we talking spaceman here?" Nouri asks, and we are. Both the killer and the so-called FBI agent are from another planet. Nouri discovers the key to this mystery about half an hour after we've figured it out for ourselves. ![]()
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